Roy Fielding — American computer scientist

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Roy Thomas Fielding is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.

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RRFC 9111: HTTP Caching2022 · request for comments publication
RRFC 9112: HTTP/1.12022 · request for comments publication
RRFC 9110: HTTP Semantics2022 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7235: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7233: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7232: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7234: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing2014 · request for comments publication
RRFC 6585: Additional HTTP Status Codes2012 · request for comments publication
RRFC 6570: URI Template2012 · request for comments publication
RRFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax2005 · request for comments publication
RRFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.11999 · request for comments publication
RRFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax1998 · request for comments publication
RRFC 2145: Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers1997
RRFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.11997 · request for comments publication
RRFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.01996 · request for comments publication
RRFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators1995 · request for comments publication
RRESTarchitectural style for distributed hypermedia systems

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Q2170752
Thomas
Founded by: Q11354
Awards: Q986509(1999) together with: Q93016, Q7340187 · for work: Q11354 · award rationale: Apache is a hugely popular Webserver that is freeware and has been adopted by millions of sites. Because its source code was available, this high quality server has allowed research on Web service to develop and gain credibility in the commercial world.
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1.awards.acm.org/award_winners/fielding_6162835#149
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Family name: Q20996205
Field of work: computer science
Social media followers: 12,903(February 7, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9081272
12,681(March 2, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9081272
12,085(January 7, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9081272
Doctoral advisor: Q102123017
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Sources
1.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/
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